WASHINGTON—Saying his latest executive order was legal due to an “underutilized but totally feasible workaround,” President Trump claimed Tuesday that he could overrule the U.S. Constitution by means of the relatively obscure “no one will stop me” loophole. “My critics say a constitutional amendment or at least an act of Congress is necessary to end birthright citizenship, but what they don’t realize is that a seldom-evoked administrative guideline ensures I can do whatever I want, whenever I want, because zero people will stand in my way,” said Trump, adding that the largely unheard-of clause allows him to circumvent normal legal proceedings because it’s not like anyone in any branch of government remains effective enough to prevent him from doing so. “Though few modern presidents have made use of it, this loophole has always given the nation’s chief executive unilateral power over the Constitution. Its provisions dictate that the president can sidestep any checks and balances on his power once he has abused his authority so many times that no one can keep track anymore.” Trump added that while his opponents may try to challenge his executive order in court, the loophole also states that by then he will have achieved his immediate political aims.
  • @[email protected]
    10•5 hours ago

    You can tell it is the onion because he wouldn’t acknowledge that his orders are unconstitutional and the Supreme Court would clap like seals for all the unconstitutional shit. They are great at finding shit in the constitution that isn’t there like qualified immunity or presidential immunity.

  • @shalafiEnglish
    2•4 hours ago

    Why did the judge block Trump’s order?

    Coughenour did not detail his reasoning during Thursday’s hearing, but his assertion that the order is “blatantly unconstitutional,” as well as point-blank questioning of DOJ attorney Brett Shumate — and his lack of questions for Washington’s assistant attorney general, Lane Polozola — suggested he agreed with the states’ arguments. The states say it’s well-settled that the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and that the president lacks authority to determine who should or should not be granted U.S. citizenship at birth. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is,” Coughenour told Shumate.

    https://apnews.com/article/birthright-citizenship-trump-lawsuit-immigration-21b7a941442e598003e390da09893071

    • Savaran
      7•4 hours ago

      They only do satire during decent times. During bad times they’re frequently filled with actual journalism just slightly obscured.

  • @aeronmelon
    36•13 hours ago

    This exact same report will be on c/nottheonion next week.

  • ignirtoq
    50•14 hours ago

    But is this satire? After reading about the judge that put an injunction on Trump’s order for all federal agencies to disregard birthright citizenship, I wondered if he was going to go Andrew Jackson “now let him enforce it” on it and tell the agencies to disregard the injunction as well.

    • Nougat
      47•14 hours ago

      But is this satire?

      It is not. This is exactly what Trump has been doing all along. “Make them stop me,” all the way to the Supreme Court. Which is stacked with loyalists, half of whom he put there himself.

  • @[email protected]English
    20•14 hours ago

    This is gonna be a wild four years of ‘Onion or Not The Onion’ and looking at what community it’s in isn’t a good enough clue…